0 The guys at <a href="http://plataformatec.com/">PlataformaTec</a> just released a new tool called <a href="http://github.com/plataformatec/show_for">show_for</a> that helps you to DRY your code and markup whenever showing your objects (aka in your "show" views). Check out the <a href="http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2010/03/show-your-objects-baby">blog post here</a>. 2010-03-10T21:09:31+00:00 false 3571 2010-03-10T21:09:31+00:00 665 3 The new <a href="http://github.com/grosser/bitfields">'bitfields' Rails plugin and gem</a> allows simple bitfield managements for ActiveRecord and others, produces fast(indexable) sql for query and bit-setting. 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 false 3570 2010-03-10T20:19:25+00:00 845 10 <a href="http://github.com/elliotcm/light_mongo">LightMongo</a> is a lightweight <a href="http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS">Mongo</a> object persistence layer for Ruby which makes use of Mongo's features rather than trying to emulate ActiveRecord. It's an interesting alternative to the already popular and somewhat awesome <a href="http://github.com/jnunemaker/mongomapper">MongoMapper.</a> 2010-03-09T02:59:17+00:00 false 3563 2010-03-09T02:59:17+00:00 5 0 <a href="http://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests">Parallel tests</a> now suppots any kind of test-suite(Test/RSpec/Cucumber), speeds up e.g. action_pack test-suite by 200%. Finally a good excuse for buying Dual/Quad-Core. <a href="http://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests">Speedup those tests, go parallel!</a> 2010-03-07T12:34:12+00:00 false 3562 2010-03-07T12:34:12+00:00 845 0 Some time ago I released <a href="http://github.com/rock-n-code/sinatra-pages">sinatra-pages</a>, a very practical <a href="http://sinatrarb.com">Sinatra</a> extension. Now I've used it in order to create a <a href="http://izcheznali.net/">website for social activism</a> and I'd like to show you how I did it. Please <a href="http://github.com/mr-rock/izcheznali">check it out</a>! 2010-03-07T11:46:24+00:00 false 3561 2010-03-07T11:46:24+00:00 1060 0 I just upgraded <a href="http://github.com/flyerhzm/bullet">bullet</a> gem to version 2.0 beta, which supports rails3 beta. Bullet gem helps you to kill N+1 queries and unused eager loading. 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 false 3560 2010-03-07T09:23:22+00:00 973 rubiii 0 <a href="http://github.com/rubiii/ambience" rel="nofollow" >Ambience</a> version 0.2.0 now works for every Ruby-app and returns a Hashie::Mash. 2010-03-06T12:43:52+00:00 false 3559 2010-03-06T12:43:52+00:00 2 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/flyerhzm/seo_checker">seo_checker</a>, which checks your website if it is seo. It mainly checks the url, title and descripion of web page according to the sitemap. 2010-03-05T15:20:06+00:00 false 3556 2010-03-05T15:20:06+00:00 973 0 A new generation Ruby/GSL wrapper that strives for code simplicity while retaining acceptable performance. Other GSL wrappers are either utterly complicated (lots of C code) or poorly documented. Ruby/GSL-ng uses Ruby/FFI and little bits of C code to achieve a simple implementation that integrates neatly with Ruby's standard classes and follows most of its conventions. Source is located on GitHub and gems are periodically released to Gemcutter. Check <a href="http://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-gsl-ng" rel="nofollow" >gem details</a> for links, etc. 2010-03-05T00:00:40+00:00 false 3554 2010-03-05T00:00:40+00:00 1259 0 <a href="http://outoftime.github.com/2010/03/03/sunspot-1-0.html">Sunspot 1.0</a> ships with Solr 1.4 and supports several of its new features, including multiselect faceting and trie range queries. It also comes with built-in support for multithreaded environments, Solr replication, and Solr sharding. 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 false 3553 2010-03-04T20:01:42+00:00 567 4 Seeing as it is my birthday, I'll go ahead and make a second release today. This one is for <a href="http://proutils.github.com/qed/">QED</a> a test framework using literate programming techniques. QED make test-driven functional testing as easy eating pudding pie. This new release utilizes Tilt to convert documents to HTML which are then processed by the test runner, allowing QED to support many new markup formats. And, yes, we eat our own <s>dog food</s> pie. <a href="http://proutils.github.com/qed/qedoc/index.html">Check it out</a>. 2010-03-04T18:23:50+00:00 false 3551 2010-03-05T06:40:31+00:00 516 0 Just pushed a new version of <a href="http://rubyworks.github.com/stash/">Stash</a>, a Hash with indifferent key access. All Stash keys are stored as strings so they can be garbage collected. Stash is also useful if you need a custom Hash-a-like object with special key restraints. Just override the #convert_key method in your subclass. 2010-03-04T15:14:18+00:00 false 3550 2010-03-04T15:14:18+00:00 516 0 Baseball Statz is a Rails app hosted on Heroku that uses the Ruby powered <a href="http://github.com/timothyf/gameday_api" rel="nofollow" >Gameday API</a> which provides live MLB stats. View all the stats for today's games <a href="http://baseballstatz.heroku.com/scoreboard?year=2010&month=3&date=3" rel="nofollow" >here.</a> 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 false 3548 2010-03-04T03:36:10+00:00 1257 0 <a href="http://github.com/jcoglan/faye">Faye</a> is a simple-to-use publish/subscribe messaging library that implements the Bayeux protocol for Ruby and Node.js. The <a href="http://blog.jcoglan.com/2010/03/01/faye-gets-server-side-clients/">latest release</a> adds support for server-side clients, so now your backend application can send messages out to client browsers. 2010-03-01T23:25:20+00:00 false 3540 2010-03-01T23:25:20+00:00 824 Alex Speller 0 One thing about java that's pretty useful is it's regulated interfaces. This is a simple <a href="http://github.com/alexspeller/implements" rel="nofollow" >proof-of-concept</a> of that pattern implemented in Ruby. 2010-02-27T22:55:51+00:00 false 3530 2010-02-27T22:55:51+00:00 blahed 0 <a href="http://github.com/blahed/frank" rel="nofollow" >Frank</a> lets you build static sites super fast. It uses <a href="http://github.com/rtomayko/tilt" rel="nofollow" >Tilt</a>, so it comes with support for Haml &amp; Sass, LESS, Builder, ERB, Liquid, Mustache, &amp; CoffeeScript. <a href="http://github.com/blahed/frank" rel="nofollow" >Frank</a> also has a helpers for lorem text and generating placeholder images. 2010-02-27T17:23:05+00:00 false 3529 2010-02-27T20:50:46+00:00 0 We've just released Delorean. This is a gem we've packaged from a piece of code we've been using for months that lets you travel in time with ruby by mocking Time.now which is extremely useful for testing. Check it out at <a href="http://github.com/bebanjo/delorean">http://github.com/bebanjo/delorean</a> 2010-02-25T00:40:52+00:00 false 3520 2010-02-25T05:52:16+00:00 535 0 The <a href="http://github.com/adzap/grouped_validations">grouped_validations</a> plugin allows you to define validation groups which you can check for validity in isolation from the rest of the validations on a model. Handy for multi-page forms or wizard style data entry. 2010-02-23T01:59:54+00:00 false 3514 2010-02-23T01:59:54+00:00 496 6 Introducing the new <a href="http://github.com/moonmaster9000/binder">binder</a> gem. Read about the impetus for this <a href="http://moonmaster9000.tumblr.com/post/401320361/binder-for-all-your-esoteric-proc-closure-needs">here</a> and <a href="http://moonmaster9000.tumblr.com/post/398991873/creating-cleaner-apis">here</a>. Checkout the source <a href="http://github.com/moonmaster9000/binder">here</a>. 2010-02-20T23:25:31+00:00 false 3505 2010-02-20T23:25:31+00:00 1173 4 I just posted a blog <a href="http://zigzag.github.com/2010/02/14/from-textmate-to-vim-for-rails-coders.html">From TextMate to VIM for Rails Coders</a>. <b>The mouse is NOT needed anymore for Rails coding</b>. -- Check out whether you agree it or not. Or Just imagine bring out your iPad + Wireless Keyboard and go on hacking Rails code quickly with SSH + VIM… Cool enough? 2010-02-20T14:58:09+00:00 false 3503 2010-02-21T01:20:09+00:00 1140 0 I just released <a href="http://proutils.github.com/mast">Mast</a> v1.2. Mast is a really nifty manifest generator and comparison tool with a unique ability to store generation options in the manifest file itself. This release addresses some minor issues from the previous release. 2010-02-20T01:16:07+00:00 false 3502 2010-02-20T02:21:59+00:00 516 0 I put together an app called <a href="http://terrbear.org/?p=220">Love/HATE</a> (<a href="http://github.com/terrbear/lovehate">open source</a>) that lets developers love or hate something and send that up to a page. We have it on a TV here; it's hilarious (and informative). 2010-02-18T19:54:32+00:00 false 3497 2010-02-18T19:54:32+00:00 555 0 I just released my <a href="http://github.com/markpercival/divining_rod"> Divining Rod</a> gem, an easy way to profile incoming mobile requests based on the user agent or subdomain, and assign a format to them. 2010-02-18T19:01:43+00:00 false 3496 2010-02-18T19:01:43+00:00 644 DerGuteMoritz 0 I just released an <a href="http://github.com/DerGuteMoritz/activerecord-lazy-attributes" rel="nofollow" >ActiveRecord extension which allows attributes to be loaded lazily</a>. Especially useful for BLOB columns and the like. 2010-02-18T12:46:21+00:00 false 3492 2010-02-18T12:46:21+00:00 1 Users never have to wait for cached pages to be generated (unlike the page caching that ships with Rails). Inspired by Pivotal Labs' <a href="http://pivotallabs.com/users/steve/blog/articles/262-rails-slashdotted-no-problem">Rails, Slashdotted: no problem</a> I've created this <a href="http://github.com/eliotsykes/page_cache">Page Cache plugin</a> to give Rails holeless/seamless page caching. The <a href="http://github.com/eliotsykes/page_cache">README and source is on github</a> and here's the <a href="http://blog.eliotsykes.com/2010/02/17/new-rails-page-cache-plugin-for-holeless-seamless-page-caching/">blog post explaining how I use it</a>. 2010-02-18T11:03:19+00:00 false 3491 2010-02-18T19:55:35+00:00 1212 0 <a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/2/5/rails-3-0-beta-release">Rail 3.0 is now in beta</a>. I don't know about you, but I've already written my first Rails 3 application. Allow me to <a href="http://blog.railsmachine.com/articles/2010/02/17/smooth-devoperations-deploying-rails-3-with-moonshine/">share with you the tale of deploying it</a> with <a href="http://github.com/railsmachine/moonshine">moonshine</a> 2010-02-18T00:05:18+00:00 false 3488 2010-02-18T00:05:18+00:00 256 2 I just released <a href="http://github.com/maccman/supermodel" rel="nofollow" >SuperModel</a> - a library for in-memory databases. Supports: * Serialisation, * Validations, * Callbacks, * Observers, * Dirty (Changes), * Ruby Marshaling to disk, * Redis 2010-02-17T00:28:39+00:00 false 3475 2010-02-17T04:44:51+00:00 1233 0 <a href="http://github.com/cldwalker/hirb#readme">Hirb</a> is <a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/hirb-an-easy-to-use-view-framework-for-irb-1853.html">known for its tables</a>. <a href="http://tagaholic.me/2010/02/16/two-dimensional-console-menus-with-hirb.html">This post introduces hirb's latest console widget, two dimensional console menus built with its tables</a>. 2010-02-16T12:45:51+00:00 false 3465 2010-02-16T12:45:51+00:00 663 0 I've been working on JRuby/Duby interop to implement VST audio plugins. The first working plugin is a <a href="http://github.com/thbar/opaz-plugdk/tree/master/plugins/DubyFilta/">LP/HP filter (with cutoff and resonance)</a>. JRuby is used for declarative stuff, while Duby is used for computation intensive stuff. The combination gives an interesting Ruby-tasting audio programming experience. 2010-02-15T21:05:26+00:00 false 3461 2010-02-15T22:41:24+00:00 425 0 The <a href="http://github.com/skozlov/netzke-demo">netzke-demo</a> project has been updated with a live <a href="http://netzke-demo.writelesscode.com/window">demo of Netzke::Window</a>. Netzke is as framework that greatly facilitates creation of reusable ExtJS/Rails components. 2010-02-15T15:47:40+00:00 false 3458 2010-02-15T15:47:40+00:00 597 Chad Remesch 1 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/chadrem/officer" rel="nofollow" >Officer</a>. It is a distributed lock server coded in Ruby and Eventmachine. It is useful for synchronizing processes across multiple servers. 2010-02-14T15:32:14+00:00 false 3452 2010-02-14T21:08:29+00:00 1225 2 The day has finally arrived where you can run a browser-less javascript + DOM environment from within Ruby. <a href="http://github.com/mynyml/harmony">Harmony</a> offers a convenient DSL that allows you to get started simply and easily. There is even a Rails plugin (<a href="http://github.com/mynyml/holygrail">holygrail</a>) for functional tests. You can now leverage the power of the command line to do with JS what once required a browser. 2010-02-12T20:52:25+00:00 true 3447 2010-02-12T22:01:22+00:00 775 0 Pleased to report the grand release of a small command-line tool, <a href="http://proutils.github.com/regex/">regex</a>, which makes for some pretty dirt-simple utilization of Ruby's regular expression engine via the command shell. It can do single or repeat matches and output can be in plain text, YAML or JSON formats. Still pretty fresh off the block, but it'll beef up in capabilities over time. 2010-02-12T19:37:07+00:00 false 3446 2010-02-12T19:37:07+00:00 516 0 We are using CouchDB as our main datastore and with our growing test suite, I was looking for a way to speed it up. I wanted to make the tests faster without introducing mocks everywhere or having to change the already written tests. What I ended up doing is writing an in-memory CouchDB implementation in Ruby: <a href="http://github.com/jweiss/rocking_chair">RockingChair</a>. It is basically just a big hash with a <a href="http://github.com/jchris/couchrest">CouchRest</a> HTTPAdapter. Apart from the simple document API (store, retrieve, and delete object) it also supports <a href="http://github.com/langalex/couch_potato">CouchPotato</a> and <a href="http://github.com/peritor/simply_stored">SimplyStored</a> views. Checkout <a href="http://github.com/jweiss/rocking_chair">RockingChair on github</a>. 2010-02-12T07:49:22+00:00 false 3441 2010-02-12T07:53:27+00:00 170 2 <a href="http://gist.github.com/301269">So our intern just started writing some Factories for some test cases. This is what he came up with.</a> 2010-02-11T05:53:52+00:00 false 3433 2010-02-11T05:53:52+00:00 731 0 I recently popped off a quick <a href="http://proutils.github.com/2010/02/dci-architecture/index.html">blog post</a> about an awesome lecture on the concept of DCI architecture that I've been watching. This looks very promising and I'm guessing other Rubyists will be interested too. Check out <a href="http://proutils.github.com/2010/02/dci-architecture/index.html">my comments</a> and jump from there to the video. 2010-02-08T18:18:30+00:00 false 3425 2010-02-08T18:18:30+00:00 516 0 I just launched <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >a 'fake out' rake task</a>. Using the very excellent Faker gem by Benjamin Curtis this task can be configured to populate your models with random amounts of fake information. This can a be a real time-saver for load testing, preparing demos/screencasts, or just filling up your pages with realistic data so you can get to work on your views. Here's <a href="http://www.matthewhutchinson.net/2010/2/7/fake-it-till-you-make-it" rel="nofollow" >the blog post</a> and <a href="http://gist.github.com/296041" rel="nofollow" >the script as a Gist on GitHub</a> 2010-02-07T21:06:31+00:00 false 3417 2010-02-08T02:05:14+00:00 1213 0 Just released <a href="http://proutils.github.com/dnote/">DNote v1.1</a>. DNote is a command-line tool for scanning Ruby source for developer's notes and laying them out in the format of your choice. This release adds a few extra formats and improves upon the underlying implementation. 2010-02-06T20:01:45+00:00 true 3411 2010-02-12T22:01:33+00:00 516 6 Some of my Polish colleagues have done something worth mentioning. Well, maybe not, but it's Friday evening damnit! Watch porn with help of your ruby scripts or even irb with <a href="http://github.com/qoobaa/xxx">xxx</a> gem! 2010-02-05T21:18:44+00:00 false 3403 2010-02-05T21:53:23+00:00 749 0 <a href="http://github.com/dcrec1/active_lucene">ActiveLucene</a> is like ActiveRecord but with Lucene the full text search engine, know the details in this <a href="http://www.diegocarrion.com/2010/02/04/full-text-search-in-jruby-with-activelucene/">post</a>. 2010-02-04T18:08:42+00:00 false 3393 2010-02-04T18:08:42+00:00 461 0 <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >Rack::ForceDomain</a> (or <a href="http://github.com/cwninja/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >source on GitHub</a>): Because the alternatives were <a href="http://tomlea.co.uk/posts/0004-rack-force-doman/" rel="nofollow" >too complex for my simple mind</a>. Usage on the back of a stamp: <code> $ gem install <a href="http://gemcutter.org/gems/rack-force_domain" rel="nofollow" >rack-force_domain</a> $ heroku config add DOMAIN="foo.com" use Rack::ForceDomain, ENV["DOMAIN"] </code> 2010-02-04T17:51:25+00:00 false 3392 2010-02-05T04:08:46+00:00 1201 georgebrock 2 Spriter is a new gem that makes CSS sprites easy to create and maintain. (<a href="http://www.reevoo.com/labs/2010/02/spriter/">Blog post</a> / <a href="http://github.com/reevoo/spriter" rel="nofollow" >GitHub</a>) 2010-02-04T17:15:15+00:00 false 3390 2010-02-05T20:45:14+00:00 0 I just launched <a href="http://github.com/johnson/shadowgraph" rel="nofollow" >shadowgraph</a>, yet another YouTube copy in Rails. 2010-02-04T09:21:43+00:00 false 3388 2010-02-04T09:21:43+00:00 1203 0 <a href="http://github.com/winton/acts_as_archive">A Rails plugin called acts_as_archive</a> does just that. Very easy to set up and auto-migrates from acts_as_paranoid. 2010-02-04T01:01:41+00:00 false 3387 2010-02-04T01:04:45+00:00 312 Tom Lea 2 I made this <a href="http://github.com/cwninja/geminabox/" rel="nofollow" >geminabox</a> thingy to host our internal rubygems. It's dead simple. Kinda like a lazyman's Gemcutter.org, but just for your office, and with low quality graphic design. I <a href="http://tomlea.co.uk/posts/0003-gem-in-a-box/" rel="nofollow" >did a bloggings too</a>. I hope someone else finds it useful. 2010-02-03T20:59:51+00:00 false 3384 2010-02-03T20:59:51+00:00 1 Recommend <a href="http://rubular.com/">Rubular</a> for testing regex expressions. It's been very handy for this new gem I'm about to release called <a href="http://github.com/brainscott/lazygem">LazyGem</a> (My first gem release). 2010-02-03T17:58:08+00:00 false 3383 2010-02-03T17:58:08+00:00 965 0 I just released a new version of the <a href="http://github.com/AtelierConvivialite/webtranslateit">webtranslateit gem</a>, to sync your translation files between the <a href="https://webtranslateit.com">Web Translate It</a> service and your app. The gem now include an executable, so you can sync the language files of any kind of apps (not only Rails apps). These tools should make your internationalization experience much more enjoyable. 2010-02-03T12:06:30+00:00 false 3381 2010-02-03T12:06:30+00:00 1061 0 <a href="http://github.com/jcoglan/faye">Faye</a> is a toolkit for publish/subscribe messaging between web clients. It includes a JavaScript client library and two server backends, one for Rack based on EventMachine and the other a brand new version for Node.js. More info on <a href="http://blog.jcoglan.com/2010/02/02/faye-a-comet-client-and-server-for-node-js-and-rack/">my blog</a>. 2010-02-03T01:13:49+00:00 false 3378 2010-02-03T01:13:49+00:00 824 cloudhead 4 My goal was to create something really small (~300sloc), right on top of Rack, and make use of git & heroku whenever I could, foregoing the need for any kind of database. Comments are handled by disqus, and we got markdown, atom and templating support. Go check out <a href="http://cloudhead.io/toto" rel="nofollow" >http://cloudhead.io/toto</a> for more info. The repo's at <a href="http://github.com/cloudhead/toto" rel="nofollow" >http://github.com/cloudhead/toto</a> - enjoy! 2010-02-03T00:46:41+00:00 true 3377 2010-02-04T04:39:35+00:00 0 If you're into music and ruby, here are <a href="http://www.vimeo.com/9111883">two screencasts demonstrating Nasir</a> (a live coding system). I believe the code is not yet available but should be on github later on, most likely. 2010-02-02T23:33:13+00:00 false 3376 2010-02-03T06:06:12+00:00 425